The FC Denzlingen is a German association football club from the city of Denzlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
The club's most notable achievements are playing in the highest football league in the state, the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, from 1999 to 2002 and again in 2009–10. It also reached the first round of the German Cup once, in 1998.
History The FC Denzlingen was formed on 7 January 1928. From 1947, when it returned to competitive football after the war, to 1951, the club was known as SV Denzlingen.
The club did not make an impact on the football scene in South Baden until 1988, when it earned promotion to the tier-five Landesliga () through a championship in the Bezirksliga Freiburg. FCD managed another promotion within two season, now to the Verbandsliga Südbaden, where it lasted for only one season.
In 1993, it made a more permanent return to the Verbandsliga. In 1998, it took out the South Baden Cup, which qualified the club for the first round of the national cup competition. There, on 29 August 1998 it met Hamburger SV and earned a respectable 3–0 defeat against the Fußball-Bundesliga team. The season proved to get even more successful when the club took out the league title and earned promotion to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg for the first time.
At this level, the team struggled for three seasons, a twelfth place its best result, before being relegated again. FCD did not settle well back in the Verbandsliga and was relegated once more in 2004.
Its stint in the Landesliga was however only a short one, returning to the Verbandsliga immediately on the strength of a league championship. The club also reached the South Baden Cup final once more in 2005, but lost.
In 2008–09, the team had another successful season, winning promotion back to the Oberliga for a second stint, but lasted for only one season before going down again. After finishing second-last in the Verbandsliga in 2014–15 the club was relegated to the Landesliga but bounced back immediately through a league championship there.
Honours The club's honours:
League Verbandsliga Südbaden (V-VI) Champions: 1999, 2009 Landesliga Südbaden-Staffel II (V-VI) Champions: 1990, 2005, 2016 Bezirksliga Freiburg (VI) Champions: 1988
Cup South Baden Cup Winners: 1998 Runners-up: 2006
Recent managers Recent managers of the club: Manager Start Finish Uli Lehmann 1 July 2007 31 December 2007 Mario Bleier Christian Schloz Stefan Schütte 1 January 2008 30 June 2008 Michael Baumann 1 July 2008 31 December 2010 Midhat Mandžo Stefan Schütte 1 March 2013 1 March 2013
Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club: Season Division Tier Position 1999–2000 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg IV 12th 2000–01 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 13th 2001–02 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 18th ↓ 2002–03 Verbandsliga Südbaden V 7th 2003–04 Verbandsliga Südbaden 16th ↓ 2004–05 Landesliga Südbaden-Staffel II VI 1st ↑ 2005–06 Verbandsliga Südbaden V 6th 2006–07 Verbandsliga Südbaden 4th 2007–08 Verbandsliga Südbaden 6th 2008–09 Verbandsliga Südbaden VI 1st ↑ 2009–10 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg V 16th ↓ 2010–11 Verbandsliga Südbaden VI 8th 2011–12 Verbandsliga Südbaden 9th 2012–13 Verbandsliga Südbaden 7th 2013–14 Verbandsliga Südbaden 11th 2014–15 Verbandsliga Südbaden 15th ↓ 2015–16 Landesliga Südbaden VII 1st ↑ 2016–17 Verbandsliga Südbaden VI With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
References
External links Official team site FC Denzlingen profile at Weltfussball.de Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables